Shot-Put

Has there ever been a more pointless “sport”? I mean seriously, it’s worse than Cricket or American Football. “Look at me, I can twiddle around like a prat in this circle before pushing this heavy ball away from me, woooo!”. And have you seen the people that do it in the Olympics? Can’t imagine they get much action! Sounds like a lot of pain for no reward to me. And what’s the point? Seriously? Where did it come from? I mean, let’s see who can run the fastest, jump the longest and the highest, that I can understand. Even the javelin, well, that obviously comes from throwing spears at the enemy in ancient times. But the shot? I dunno, I mean if the ancient Greeks were throwing heavy balls at the enemy, if the enemy was close enough, by the time the thrower had twiddled around like a super-heavy ballerina on speed and pushed the thing away, he (or she) would have been run through with a spear. And if it was some kind of bomb, it would be pretty useless, cos it would have to be pretty weak to avoid blowing up the thrower. I just can’t see the point.

Same goes for the triple jump. “ooh, let’s see who can jump the longest if we let them put their foot down twice in the middle of the jump!”. I mean why not the double jump? Or the quadruple jump? I mean seriously!

Rant over.